New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

No agricultural Journal has yet announced series
of papers ON farm topics by d. B. Hiu Of Albany.
Is tho Governor going to throw away all tho notes hd
made at the fairs last fall1
Tho editor Of "The Boston Courier"-a man. %
course-nveghs against the diabolical tidy. "Call-
ing in q house, no says "where tides abound ID
almost physical as it is well nigh moral, impos-
sbility. How can a man devote himself to being
agreeable seated in chair which was already occu-
pied when no sat down in it, by a malignant thing
Of whose presence behind his shoulders or wadded
into the small OF his back the sensitive man cannoe
fail to be acutely consciousp
Tho Christian clergyman seems to enjoy special
privileges in the selection Of subjects for sermons
Jewish minister would hesitate before he would ar.
radgn in a the ballet, low necked dresses. and
the marriage market.-Jewish Messenger. q.
Almost any evening in Springfield Mass, says
"The Union" Of that town. If you have chance to
look you happy young couples practising TO-
boggan attitudes In the parlor. There Is one posi-
ton which the steerer gets his chin his pas
sengcrs shoulder which requires good deal OF prac-
tice. but is awful nice %bGn you get It,
There singular happening at Lake Ronkon-
koma, L. t. few days ago Around one OF the
air holes In the Ice stood twelve big crows. They
formed a perfect circle. In q circle surrounding
tho crows stood twelve snow-white sea -gulls Oh
servers could not detect movement OF muscle IN
one Of the birds. There they remained for hours:
Lake ROnkonkoma has the reputation Of unaccoune-
ably rising and falling several feet, once every seveA
years. superstitlOus people may regard tho gull
crow convention as significant in its occurrence On
this irregular sheet Of water.
An Iowa railroad car conductor found pockctbook
the other day containing $3.50. He at once restored
it to tho owner, an old granger. mo granger
gave a grunt Of delight whom he saw it, and his Wits
sweet'y remarked to the conductor 1T Is iucRy
some one seen you pick up, we never would havo
got it again."
Jupson- That's fino painting you've got there.
Jepson.
Jepson-welI, hattcr myself that it Is, you know.
Jups0n-Is 1t one OF the old masters. do you thinks
Jepson-Wcll, 1 amt exactly sure. but i am going
to have the opinion of friend on that point to day.
Jupson-Indeedl cOnnoisscnr?
I should say so. Why, man. hos been in the tea
business for six years and handled thousahus vi PIC
tures-(lIoston Courier.
The state of Iowa attained its fOrticth year Oh S
last week In noticing the fact "Ihe Iowa state Reg
isterr says at able to give In ITS youth eighu
thousand men help subdue treason and rebellion.
In schools it ranks with the first OF the cvzed
governments among men, and has the lowest rates OF
teracy Of any nation government or province IN ths
world In railway building it has come to be sixth.
In the elements of moral as well as inteIectuai worm
it has won rank which makes IL peer with any IN ID"
Union 1t was the first State in the Union 10 ehiar
cbso the nero and one of the first three to Danish or
"A
growth in all the material things and in all the better
things of life also. 1t has grown old enough 70 nave
a history to love. and to give its people Irde Ill us
name"
louis Brennan. OF Ca-tlebar. County Mayo lrs-
land has been AWARDED 100000 by the English Az
miralty for his invention OF torpedo HIS iithcr'
thomas brennan. a blacksmith, introduced gas INTO
his house at Castelar, years before 1t was ever near"
of in that far western part Of Ireland,
They are having pretty cold weather In
MINNEAPOLIS And enterpri-inS young business
man has taken advantage of that fact in novel way.
He has had erected a pretty little buihlhs c".n'S
ont ~ blocks of ice and has opened store in it.
lie is doing a rushing business.
A pastor in a state adjoining this preaching from
the text: "Beware Of coyetousne-s, sad .iss
SUNDAY night the collection in this house amounten 70
~ 20, and the dollar was thrown in by Baptist
brother from Richmond, Va. who happened 10 10
here and did not know any better The other 900 OF
you dropped in the so cents'-Richmoha hehsi'u'